Monday, September 10, 2007

Creative Challenge

Christine at Abbey of the Arts has a way of getting my creative juices flowing. This time it is through a challenge issued by Magpie Girl. The assignment is to take a photo and alter it. Mine took on the form of a collage. I began my thinking too much and planning it out...the results are in an unfinished crumple on my desk. Then I just started ripping away at a couple of magazines. (I gave myself a short time limit and let the images find me.)

My creative time allotment for today is nearing an end, so I can't spend as much time with this image as I would like, but I have a feeling it has lots to say to me. I'd love to know what you see. And if you're up to it...take the challenge here.

I love that you did this spontaneously, without overthinking it. This feels like a very empowering collage with its statement about your possession of the key to truth. I like the tension between the bright light on the left and the closed eye on the right.

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"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be." Shel Silverstein

"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning." Gloria Steinem

"One moment there had been nothing but darkness; next moment a thousand, thousand points of light leaped out. . . ." C.S. Lewis

"Life is not a path of coincidence, happenstance, and luck, but rather an unexplainable, meticulously charted course for one to touch the lives of others and make a difference in the world." Barbara Dillinham

"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection." Buddha

"If we fail to nourish our souls, they wither, and without soul, life ceases to have meaning. The creative process shrivels in the absence of continual dialogue with the soul. And creativity is what makes life worth living." - Marion Woodman

"All your longings know where to go, but you have to tell them to open their eyes." poet Nick Piombin

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now." --Goethe

"Make plans but don't plan results." - Lianne Cordes

"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

“We do not have to be saviours of the world! We are simply human beings, enfolded in weakness and in hope, called together to change our world one heart at a time.” - Jean Vanier

"See how far the little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world." -- Wm Shakespeare

"Simplicity and greatness go together." - Monty Cralley

"Mindfulness is neither difficult nor complex: Remembering to be mindful is the great challenge." - Christina Feldman

"Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place." - Henri Nouwen

"Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That's how the light gets in." - Leonard Cohen

"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery." - Dr. Joyce Brothers

" There are 3 rules to writing a novel, unfortunately, no one knows what they are." - W. Somerset Maughm

"Bathed in morning light, pray that the lantern of your life move gently this day into all those places where light is needed." -- Macrina Wiederkehr (sevensacredpauses)

"May images come to draw things together for you and bloom juiciness within your soul like sweet oranges in winter." - Christine V. Paintner

"I write to discover what I know."--Flannery O'Connor

“feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal…”--Abraham Joshua Heschel

"The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed." --Sebastian R.N. Chamfort

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." --Buddah